WALTER SHERMAN WILHELM
1893-

Hunter, Showman, Author

Born February 27, 1893 in Trenton, Missouri. Moved to California in 1910.

Walt first became interested in Archery in 1925. By 1928 he was an accornplished small game hunter on the deserts of California and by 1930 began teaching the sport to any who would listen.

Walt traveled throughout the United States and Canada shooting in Sport Shows, sometimes by himself sometimes with his brother Ken. "As a team we were unbeatable." Walt, with his brother Ken made movies for Paramount Studios, and 'Grantland Rice's Sport Shorts". They were the first to use chemical smoke on their shafts to follow an arrow in flight.

Walt Wilhelm is generally credited with being the first to put a twist on feathers when fletching an arrow. (1929)

Walt was an early archery influence on, later to become famous authors; Capt.
Jack Willard, "The Cat and the Canary", and Earl Stanley Gardner, "Perry Mason".
Walt himself an author wrote "Last Rig to Battlemountain".

Walter S. Wilhelm - Archery Pioneer.

Inducted 1978